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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Assunta described physically?
(a) Unattractive and old-looking.
(b) Heavy-set but jolly.
(c) Unkempt and scraggly.
(d) Beautiful and delicate featured.

2. What work does Salvatore do when he settles home after returning from military service?
(a) He works as a cook for a wealthy family.
(b) Fishing and working on his father's vineyard.
(c) He refused to work and just hangs out on the beach.
(d) He works with his mother cleaning houses.

3. What does Salvatore's mother tell him about a woman named Assunta a few months after he returned from military service?
(a) She wants to marry him.
(b) She has been saying terrible things about him.
(c) She knows how to cure his rheumatism.
(d) She has a well-paying job for him.

4. What was Assunta able to purchase for Salvatore if they married?
(a) A new suit.
(b) A horse and buggy.
(c) A boat and a home.
(d) A gold watch.

5. What would Salvatore do when his rheumatism made it impossible for him to work?
(a) Sob in the dark.
(b) Lay in his bed.
(c) Drink till dawn.
(d) Rest on the beach.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Salvatore's family learn his fiancé was not going to marry him before he did?

2. What word is used to describe the size of the "white-washed" house Salvatore and Assunta buy?

3. What did Salvatore do for work when he was not fishing after he married and had children?

4. What did foreigners say about Italian fishermen when they saw Salvatore on the beach?

5. Where did Salvatore go to have a good look at Assunta before deciding whether he would marry her or not?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Salvatore washing his babies near the end of the story?

2. Why does Salvatore understand that the girl he loves will not marry him?

3. How did Salvatore's family learn he was not going to marry the girl he loved?

4. How is Assunta described after she and Salvatore marry? What does she look like? What type of person is she?

5. What does the narrator say he set out to do in the story?

6. What did Salvatore's fiancé tell him "with the blunt directness of her race" (5) when he went to see her at her home after he returned rom military service?

7. What did Salvatore do for work after he and Assunta married?

8. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

9. What would Salvatore do if his rheumatism became too bad for him to work?

10. Though Salvatore found Assunta physically unattractive, what could she offer him if they married?

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